ART WITH MISS ALLIE

Fantastic Frogs!

Reminder: Tomorrow is FUN RUN IN THE SUN day!

To benefit our school and W.E. Care for Kids, we will be having our walk/run and hot dog BBQ lunch. Our 'FUN RUN' begins at 12:15. Thank you to the grade 12 leadership class for this great initiative.

Read-a-thon

Great experiences at our Hillman Marsh Trip

With the spring weather upon us,

we have been having lots of fun...

indoors and outdoors!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reminder: Tomorrow is Freezie Day!

If you wish, please send in a

donation of $1.00 to

buy a freezie to raise money

for Kid's Help Phone.

 

Check out the pictures below

from our Bunny visit and walk to

CK Greenhouses:

 



Reminder: Monday, Apr. 27th is a P.D. Day

(no school for students)

 

Check out some of the pictures below

to see the 'amazing recycle creations' that

some of our students made this week at school:

 

Welcome Spring!

 

 

 

Check out the plans for our new house:

 

 

 Painting our house:

 

 

 

Let the fun and the storytelling begin:



 

 

Spring News

 

Earth Day and Our Environment: To help celebrate our wonderful earth and Earth Day on Apr. 22, we will be promoting our love for the earth at school. Our science curriculum focus this month will be to develop the children’s appreciation for nature and to demonstrate the need to care for the environment. To support this, we will complete many language, math and science based activities that promote ‘loving and caring’ for our world.

We will also complete a recycle activity this month. Please save paper towel rolls (or other types of large rolls), Kleenex/cereal boxes, plastic containers, old scraps of wrapping paper, ribbon or any other interesting recycled items and send them to school by Wed., Apr. 22. We will be making our recycle creation on this day.

Nature Walks: We will also be making use of our new pathway and we will be going on walks throughout the rest of the year to the McAuliffe Park area to explore nature and complete outdoor education.

'Music and Arts' Day at TVA

(lots of music, singing, dancing and laughter)

 

'Beethoven' Comes to Visit TVA
with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra

P, B and J Concert
 

What does valentine's fun include in kindergarten?...

making friends, sharing,

laughing, being kind,

dancing, creating,

writing, reading,

making cards, playing games.

 

Science Fun - exploring, experimenting and creating.

Math - building, creating, exploring and learning

about geometric solids.

 

Check out our geometric shapes and solids

we built using marshmallows and toothpicks.

Outdoor Exploration

 



Indoor Exploration

 

 

We've been creating, making, eating and reading about

snowmen and their imaginative activities.

After reading about 'Snowmen at Night' and creating

our own snowmen, we were very excited to find our snowmen had been playing games, hiding and having

fun in our classroom during the night.

 



TVA is an amazing place to learn,

create, explore and have fun. 

 



Look at What's Been Happening in JK/SK:

 

 

We love learning about Penguins. One of our

friends read us his penguin book. We learned very quickly that the daddy Emperor penguin is very careful when he takes care of the baby egg... if not, it cracks and makes a big mess! We've also been reading other books about penguins and putting on puppet shows, dressing up and acting like penguins, making penguin hats and we celebrated Penguin Day by playing Penguin Musical Chairs and making slushies... Mmm! Mmm!

 

 



We had our own Penguin Rescue at Tecumseh Vista. After reading a story about penguins that were rescued by people after an oil spill, we created our own Feather Penguin Rescue at school. 

We are happy to say that our penguins are cleaned and ready to go swimming again!

 



We have been learning about shapes, reading, letters, sounds and magnets. We are building and creating awesome inventions. There's always so much to see and do. Did you know that we can even practise making letters with our bodies?! (look above to check out the bottom picture on the left)

 



We had lots of fun making dough, turning dough into alphabet letters and painting them with Miss Allie.

 

Miss Allie is our awesome co-op student who comes to help us every morning at school. She loves our class so much that she's going to do another co-op placement with us next semester. She's going to be in our class for the whole year. We are so lucky to have her help us in our class and we love having her come visit us everyday!

 



 

After reading several Barbara Reid stories

and learning about the pictures she creates using plasticine, we created our own beautiful pictures/scenes. We hope you can stop by our classroom to see our display of our amazing plasticine creations.

 

Happy New Year and Welcome 2015!

 

We hope everyone had a wonderful and restful holiday. We wish you all the very best in the new year and we are looking forward to bringing in 2015 with many valuable, fun and enriching activities in our kindergarten classroom.

 

To start our new year, we have opened up our new Vista Pet Shop (results from our class survey that one of our friends initiated and made for our students determined that a Pet Shop was the most popular centre). So, we completed many activities this week to open up our new store. 

 

 

 

Not only are we learning about

numbers, counting, money, patterns, writing

and so on while making collars, leashes, food,

price tags and other things for our store,

we are also learning about love, being kind

and doing good things for others.

 

 We also created many types of

designs using our pattern blocks,

and we made lists of things

we needed for our pet store.

 

 We explored with our snow/igloo table,

learned about penguins and their homes

at the water table and made cool creations.

 There's always so much fun and great

inventions happening! One of our friends made

a measuring stick almost as tall as the ceiling.